AMD K manual Instruction Execution Deadlock, Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7

Preliminary Information

23614K— October 2003 AMD Athlon™ Processor Model 4 Revision Guide

13 Instruction Execution Deadlock

Products Affected. A4, A5, A6, A7

Normal Specified Operation. Legitimate instruction sequences should execute as specified.

Non-conformance.Under rare and unlikely conditions, the load-store unit, instruction scheduler and effective address generation unit interact in such a way that deadlock a occurs, preventing further instruction execution.

Potential Effect on System. The system hangs. No instructions complete and the processor will not respond to interrupts.

Suggested Workaround. None.

Resolution Status. Fix planned for a future revision.

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